Reliable Cloud Network Security with Strong Visibility
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best is the visibility and control it gives over our cloud network. I can see exactly what traffic is flowing, enforce consistent security policies, and catch potential threats before they become a problem—all from a single, centralized platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main downside is the initial setup and learning curve. It takes time to understand all the features and configure policies correctly, especially if you’re new to Check Point or cloud networking.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard is solving the problem of inconsistent and hard-to-manage cloud security. It protects our workloads from misconfigurations, unauthorized access, and threats while giving us clear visibility into all network traffic. This means fewer security incidents, faster troubleshooting, and confidence that our cloud environment is properly protected.
Peace of Mind with CloudGuard Security
What do you like best about the product?
I really appreciate the peace of mind that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security gives us. It actively monitors network traffic and blocks threats in real-time, which has led to fewer incidents and faster response to potential security issues. The visibility it provides is impressive; the intuitive dashboard shows what's happening in our cloud network at any given moment. I find it incredibly useful to see potential risks, traffic flows, and compliance status all in one place. This centralized view has saved us hours of manual monitoring and simplified our audit process. A major plus is the automation, where CloudGuard automatically applies security policies and prevents common threats, allowing our small security team to manage a large, complex cloud environment more efficiently. Integration with our existing cloud platforms like AWS and Azure was easier than expected, and the support team has been responsive when we had questions.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the pricing is higher than some other tools we considered, and some advanced features require more technical knowledge to configure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security gives us peace of mind by actively monitoring our traffic and blocking threats in real time. Its intuitive dashboard centralizes network visibility, saving us hours of manual monitoring and simplifying audits. Automation allows our small team to manage a large cloud environment efficiently.
Effective Threat Prevention, Complex Setup
What do you like best about the product?
I like the quite detailed traffic and threat logs, which made troubleshooting much easier for me. Also, it solved the problem of serving as quite efficient threat prevention.
What do you dislike about the product?
Licensing clarity could use quite a lot more work, honestly. SmartConsole feels quite heavy and slow than what one would expect, so I think if you could make it somehow lighter and more cloud optimized. Initial setup was overly complex. I would definitely not recommend it to anyone new to the industry or using products like these. I am positive the complexities would deter them from using it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've used Check Point CloudGuard Network Security primarily as a firewall in cloud environments, mainly to control traffic on AWS and Azure. It efficiently solves the problem of threat prevention.
Centralized Multi-Cloud Security, But There’s Room to Improve
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is how it delivers consistent, enterprise-grade security controls across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, while still staying highly scalable and automated. I also value its deep integration with cloud-native services, along with centralized management that makes it easier to maintain visibility, enforce policies, and respond to incidents in a more streamlined way.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike is that the initial setup and configuration can feel complex, especially for teams that are new to Check Point or to cloud security architectures. On top of that, the cost and licensing model can be difficult to optimize for smaller environments or for rapidly changing cloud workloads, which adds another layer of challenge when trying to keep things efficient.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security addresses the challenge of securing dynamic cloud environments by delivering unified visibility, advanced threat prevention, and consistent security policies across multiple cloud platforms. For me, this translates into simpler day-to-day security management, a lower risk of misconfigurations, and more time to focus on detection and response instead of maintaining complex security architectures.
Straightforward Security Tool, Needs Better Support
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is straight to the point when securing our customers' network security. The initial setup was pretty straightforward, making it easier to deploy at work.
What do you dislike about the product?
The support is kind of bad. Sometimes the workers don't know their own product properly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us secure customer's network security.
Cloud security has reduced alerts and improves real-time protection for critical workloads
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has been securing cloud network traffic, and I mainly rely on it to protect workloads in the cloud and enforce consistent security policies across cloud environments.
A quick example of how I use Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to protect my cloud workloads is by inspecting inbound traffic to public-facing services; recently, it blocked suspicious scans and unauthorized access attempts before they could reach my cloud applications.
What is most valuable?
The best features Check Point CloudGuard Network Security offers include cloud-native threat prevention that inspects traffic in real time, consistent policy enforcement across multi-cloud environments, and automation and integration with cloud platforms for easier deployment.
The feature that made the biggest difference for me is the real-time threat prevention because it stops malicious traffic and risky behavior before it ever reaches my cloud workloads. This has significantly reduced actual incidents and false positives that I need to chase.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has positively impacted my organization by reducing successful attacks and risky cloud traffic, meaning fewer incidents reach production systems. It has also cut down the time my team spends troubleshooting threats, letting us focus more on proactive cloud security, which has freed up my time.
Since deploying Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, I have seen about a 40% drop in cloud network alerts, which has cut down noise and false positives, helping my team save roughly 25% of time previously spent on manual investigation and threat cleanup.
What needs improvement?
I think the initial setup of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security can be simpler; onboarding could be more intuitive for new cloud teams, and it could also have more flexible custom reporting and better documentation examples.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for about a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has been very good; it handles growth in workloads and traffic smoothly, and the policies scale across accounts without performance issues.
How are customer service and support?
I think the customer support for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has been responsive and helpful.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously relied mainly on AWS Native security controls, and I switched to Check Point CloudGuard Network Security because I needed stronger threat prevention, better visibility, and centralized policy management, as the AWS Native security controls were too limited for me, necessitating a solution with greater visibility.
How was the initial setup?
I think the initial setup of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security can be simpler; onboarding could be more intuitive for new cloud teams, and it could also have more flexible custom reporting and better documentation examples.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment from Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, with a clear impact reflected in a 40% reduction in cloud network alerts and about 25% less time spent by my team on manual investigations and threat analysis. This means less operational overhead and more time for proactive cloud projects, translating to measurable cost savings and better efficiency overall.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security was a bit complex to map out at first; the setup cost was fair, especially through the AWS Marketplace, though planning the right license levels took some initial effort, so overall, it feels like good value for the level of cloud protection I get.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I evaluated other solutions, including Palo Alto, the AWS Native Controls, and Fortinet.
Compared to Palo Alto, AWS Native Controls, and Fortinet, Check Point CloudGuard Network Security was easier to integrate with my AWS environment and roll out consistent policies across accounts, so the day-to-day ops felt quicker. Compared to AWS Native, it is more feature-rich, and versus Palo Alto, it is similar in capability but slightly friendlier for multi-cloud automation.
What other advice do I have?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security provides me with unified security management across my cloud and hybrid environments, and having a single console for policies and visibility simplifies operations, reduces errors, and makes it much easier to manage security consistently as I scale.
I utilize Check Point CloudGuard Network Security alongside other Check Point products like Check Point Quantum Force and Harmony Endpoints, which integrate through a shared management and threat intelligence layer, giving me consistent visibility and protection across cloud, network, and endpoints.
My advice to others looking into using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is to plan your cloud architecture and policies early and start with a phased rollout.
I would rate Check Point CloudGuard Network Security an eight on a scale of one to ten because I think there is always room to be better.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
A best tool for cloud network security
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud guard helps me clearly see and control cloud network traffic from one place, which makes managing security much easy and simpler this is the best thing about cloud guard
What do you dislike about the product?
It simplifies cloud network security by giving better visibility and reducing the actual effort needed to monitor traffic security which i don't like about the network security
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps secure cloud workloads by controlling traffic and avoiding manual security checks by enabling the network security polices which improves the monitoring
Strong Cloud Protection with Some Setup Challenges
What do you like best about the product?
The finest thing for Check Point Cloud Guard Newtwork Security, In my opinion is how well it protects my cloud traffic. I appropriate how simple it is to maintain security policy in one location and it is dependable and work nicely with cloud vendors. Also threat protection seems modern and reliable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Set and configuration can occasionally be a little challenging particularly in more complicated environments. Update and policy changes may take some time to implement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can safe guard cloud workloads and traffic from outside attacks and configuration errors with the aid of Cloud Guard Network Security. It maintains consistency in our rules and facilities the management of security across various cloud platforms.
Cloud security has strengthened compliance and now protects internet access for our workloads
What is our primary use case?
The main use case of using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is to secure all of our cloud infrastructures while they are browsing the internet and scanning everything.
We use Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for HTTPS inspection as well as URL filtering and providing only a certain limited access for the VMs to certain websites.
What is most valuable?
The best features Check Point CloudGuard Network Security offers are its threat emulation and threat extraction blade as well as bring your own license where you can use the on-prem Check Point CloudGuard and decommission it to use in the cloud.
I believe Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has impacted our organization positively because it is one of the stable products that I have used till now, and we do not have to upgrade Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for any sort of CVE or bug in its OS and it is very stable.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has decreased the organizational risk because it provides compliance with HIPAA as well as PCI DSS by means of its compliance blade. It makes it easier for us to determine if we are compliant or not.
It made me more secure because when you talk about security, Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is on top of the list with 99.8 in blocking malware according to the Miercom list. I believe it has had a positive effect and we have not had any incidents.
What needs improvement?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security needs to focus more on the VPN side by being more flexible with configuring the VPN with route-based VPN and having a failover with it.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for about five to six months, and we are still in the evaluation phase.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have not faced any incident to date when using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. We have faced zero downtime, and we have not been compromised.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is one of the stable products I have used.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is very scalable. It depends upon your license, and if you purchase the right kind of license, then it is very scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is on point. If you raise a case, they will reply within half an hour. I would rate the customer support for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security at a 10.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not use a different solution previously.
How was the initial setup?
The setup was acceptable. We got a good deal.
What about the implementation team?
We only need fewer employees because Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is easier to use in the cloud and we do not have to tweak every setting. However, we are yet to see a good return on investment.
What was our ROI?
We do not need as many employees because Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is easier to use in the cloud and we do not have to tweak every setting. However, we are yet to see a good return on investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We are a partner with Check Point CloudGuard Network Security.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We did not evaluate any other options.
What other advice do I have?
Currently, we have not used Check Point CloudGuard Network Security alongside with any other Check Point products.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security does provide unified management access. Currently, we do not have any on-prem devices, but you can use the CloudGuard management system to onboard both cloud as well as on-prem gateways, where you can see the logs for both the devices. Currently, we have not used it on-prem, so we do not have this capability.
If you are looking at the value and security and you do not want to compromise, then Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is one of the best solutions you could have in your organization. I would give this review an overall rating of 9.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Centralized cloud security has improved segmentation and visibility but still needs faster policy updates
What is our primary use case?
I normally use Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to protect cloud workloads and control traffic between cloud resources. It is mostly for enforcing segmentation and managing security policies across different cloud environments.
A recent example of how I use Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to enforce segmentation or manage policies was when we deployed a new application tier in the cloud. I used CloudGuard to segment it from the rest of the environment and apply stricter threat prevention rules.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is deployed in the public cloud setup in my case.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security does provide unified security management across hybrid clouds as well as on-premises. Having policies and visibility centralized in one place makes operations much smoother. Instead of managing separate rule sets for cloud and on-premises, I can apply consistent policies across both and see all traffic flows in a single dashboard. That cuts down on configuration risk and makes troubleshooting faster.
I do utilize Check Point CloudGuard Network Security alongside other Check Point products. In my case, I use it alongside Quantum and Harmony Endpoint.
What is most valuable?
The best features in Check Point CloudGuard Network Security are the centralized cloud-native policy management, strong threat prevention for cloud traffic, and automatic discovery of cloud assets.
The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security in my day-to-day work is the centralized cloud-native policy management. I can control all the clouds, which is very beneficial.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has helped us reduce misconfigurations and improve how quickly we can secure new cloud workloads. We have also had fewer issues with unexpected traffic because the visibility tools make it easier to spot problems.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has helped me reduce my organizational risk. The clear visibility into cloud traffic and the automatic adaptation to cloud changes reduced the chance of misconfigurations, which were one of our biggest risks. The number of policy-related issues we had to fix dropped noticeably once we started using it.
It has increased my confidence in secure cloud deployments and migrations quite a bit. Knowing that policy adjusts automatically when new resources come online makes migration less stressful. The consistent visibility across environments also helps because I can verify traffic flows.
What needs improvement?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security could be improved with faster policy propagation across large multi-cloud environments and more intuitive dashboards for complex rule sets.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for about one year and a half.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security scales well as our cloud footprint grows. It handled adding more workloads and environments without major issues.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is very good and very helpful, but I think it could be better on higher complexity issues.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used a mix of native cloud controls and some older firewall setups before Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. We switched because they did not give us the same level of unified visibility or consistent policies across environments.
How was the initial setup?
Securing a new workload with Check Point CloudGuard Network Security now could take a few hours before because I had to map out network paths and build policies manually. Now, it usually takes under an hour. The automatic asset discovery and clear visibility shave off a good chunk of the setup time.
What about the implementation team?
I purchased Check Point CloudGuard Network Security through the AWS Marketplace.
What was our ROI?
I cannot give a percentage for money, but we have seen a return mainly through time savings and fewer configuration-related issues with Check Point CloudGuard Network Security.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I have evaluated solutions that compete with Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. We evaluated solutions from Palo Alto Networks, Prisma Cloud, and also Azure. However, AWS with Check Point CloudGuard Network Security was much easier to implement, and that is why we prefer it.
We did evaluate other options before choosing Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. The main alternatives we evaluated were Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud and some of the native security tools from Azure. They work for certain use cases, but Check Point CloudGuard Network Security gave us a stronger unified policy management.
What other advice do I have?
The core security features of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security work really well, but a few usability areas hold it back: the policy propagation speed and parts of the interface. I would give Check Point CloudGuard Network Security a rating of seven out of ten.
I would advise others looking into using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to first plan ahead. I recommend starting with a small pilot across one or two tiers, defining policy and segmentation baselines upfront.
